bales of tobacco. During the chase, and after getting for a time out of gun-shot, the greater part of this vessel’s cargo and the whole of her guns, which appear to have been 9-pounders, were thrown overboard; and when the Swallow got alongside at night, she found her abandoned by her lawless crew, about thirty in number, though four or five leagues from the land. It afterwards appeared that three of them had been killed and several wounded. The Swallow had two men wounded. Both cutters suffered severely in sails and rigging. On the 19th July following, Lieutenant Stanley was promoted to the rank of commander.
ROBERT GORE, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 6th Dec. 1813; and appointed to the Horatio frigate. Captain William Henry Dillon, Jan. 26th, 1811. The manner in which that ship was employed until the beginning of 1817, when she was paid off on her return from the East Indies, will be seen by reference to Suppl. Part I. p. 307, et seq. His next appointment was Aug. 6th, 1819, to the Leander 60, fitting out for the flag of Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., commander-in-chief on the East India station, where he was serving when promoted to his present rank, July 23d, 1821. He subsequently commanded the Satellite 18.
ROBERT BALDEY, Esq.
[Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 27th Sept. 1809. At the close of the war, in 1814, we find him serving as first of the Sapphire sloop, successively commanded by Captains Henry Haynes and Adam Brown, on the Jamaica station. He subsequently commanded two small vessels, the Variable and Decouverte, in the latter of which, an American-built schooner, of 12 guns, he conveyed the celebrated Bolivar, with several of his near relations, from the Spanish Main to Port
